The Kiev escort plan of fortress stuck to in the most strict secret: to that, who will open him an opponent, reference threatened to Siberia, and in a war-time – shooting. Lysogorskoe built strengthening on the last word of fortification art. A new fortress unlike previous was adjusted to the terms of the use of the heavy threaded artillery. Lysogorskoe strengthening became the last building of complex of the Kiev escort fortress chronologic. In the total on territory of the Kiev escort fortress were located arsenal, powder-magazines, food shops, barracks, at home military department, and also the Kievo-pecherskiy monastery and parochial churches. For strengthening of oboronosposobnosti of fortress, there was Zverin strengthening, taken away on some distance from the basic strengthening of citadel.

The citadel of the Kiev escort fortress was built round Kievo-pecherskoy . It occupied considerable territory of the Pecherskogo plateau, limited Klovskim and Navodnickim yarami, and also steep bank of Dnepr. Without regard to that the Kievan fortress developed as a military-defensive complex during two ages, it was not involved in none of wars, whose motion and results was designated on the evolution of its fortification complex. Step by step the Kievan fortress grew into the rearward base of armies in the field.

In 1897 of Lysogorskiy fort was got by status “fortress-storage ²²² digit”. At one time here kept a pyroxylin is the strongest explosive, and Kiev escort did not even know that lived “on a powder-keg”.

Exactly on these storages in the days of German occupation, a grandiose explosion which pranged part of Pecherska happened in 1918. By an explosive wave glasses of houses were knocked out up to University of Sv. Vladimira.

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